Paul Cornell Talks about Demon Knights, and How Harry Potter Should Have Ended...

[espanolbot]

Information on the setting, more on Madame Xanadu and Shining Knight, and Etrigan's views on Goths beyond the link,
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=34507

*sigh* I do hope that this series isn't cancelled, it's fun and all but Paul Cornell's work hasn't really had that good a trackrecord in that regard... Unless DC decides to break the trend Marvel started.

For legality, the cover to issue two, in which the team is assembled,


Admittedly I've only seen the movies, but if the books actually ended like this, I'd have an incentive to read them.

Comments

[drmcninja]

Slow mo "I'm awesome" is awesome. But seriously, why didn't someone just shoot him in the head? It could have saved us at least three books.

[auggie18]

I'm pretty sure that in one of her interviews, JK Rowling talked about how if wizards were less stuck up about muggles, they would've asked for help and the Voldemort thing would've been non-issue.


All wizards are pretty dickish towards muggles, actually. No matter which side they're on.

[drakyndra]

Well, his body would be dead, but he'd still be doing that lurky spirit-that-could-possess people thing he had going on in the first bunch of books.

It's not quite that easy, until you get the horcruxes out of the way. And once the last one was gone, he was dead about 10 minutes later, which strikes me as pretty efficient.

[auggie18]

I think she meant if they had gone to muggles as soon as Voldie started being an issue back in the day, but I can't seem to find the interview, so *shrug*


Heck, it'd probably be easier to go around destroying Horcruxes if he didn't have a corporeal body anyway, so it'd still be pretty useful.

[icon_uk]

He didn't create the horcruxes until much later in his life.

[drakyndra]

Didn't he make the diary one when he was like 16? Which is why that part of his soul looks like a teenager.

Most of the rest were later on, though.

[darkblade]

Yeah they'd have to have killed him when he was 14 or younger because of the diary and no one knew anything was truly evil about him until he was 16 and that was only Dumbledore's suspicion.

[icon_uk]

I did once read a Harry Potter/Sporano's fanfic, which had the eminently sensible notion of Voldemort basically saying "Screw this "Magic cannot hurt him in his home until he turns 17" shit. I know people with guns and no scruples about shooting a kid if the money is right. Oh hi there Tony..."

[darkblade]

I can't see that happening. Voldermort no matter how desperate he got would not even consider trusting a muggle like that.

[glprime]

Trust nothing. "Imperio. Kill the Potters of Godric's Hollow."

Bing bang boom.

[janegray]

I just can't see Voldemort relying on muggles, ever. Not even on his own terms, not even with the imperio curse.

His hatred for muggles was downright pathological. No way in hell would he ever, ever admit, even just to himself, that any random muggle with a gun could easily do something the most powerful wizard could not do.

Voldemort's ridiculous ego was his Fatal Flaw.

[kenwyn89]

I'm a Harry Potter child- Dad bought first one for me for 50 pence in a bargain box. I didn't read it first though :P my sis did. Because the books just kept getting more mature as I grew up never really noticed all the inconsistency!

[proteus_lives]

I love those "How they should have ended" cartoons!

My favs are Star Trek, LOTR, Avatar.

[halloweenjack]

I fucking hate them. From the perspective of the omniscient narrator, I decide what should have been "obvious" to everyone; plus, time travel solves everything! Hey, why didn't Captain America grab the Cosmic Cube from the Red Skull (he could have done it, he's got the reflexes) and solve all of the problems of the Marvel Universe forever? And the DC Universe, too? And ours? The Cosmic Cube can do anything, right?

Sorry, I'm in a pissy mood, but it's one of those things where you'd think that no one ever heard of Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act or anything.

[proteus_lives]

(Backs away slowly...)

I understand but I just think they're funny.

No problem chief, we're cool, let's everyone just be cool...

:D

[runespoor]

I thought I was alone! Oh; S_D, where it's never just me. :D

[grazzt]

To be fair, while some of them abuse the omniscient narrator and are pretty smug, others are just goofy fun. The Terminator one I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, for instance, or the Underworld one where they make fun of the ridiculous decapitation scene. Or the Braveheart one, with it's beautiful bit of non sequitur ("William Wallace is a robot?" "I didn't see that one coming.").

[grazzt]

I think my favourite is the Terminator one, where they end it with a crossover between that franchise and Back To The Future.

[pyrotwilight]

Heh, I'll admit I always thought JK Rowling would've used the time turners to somehow make the series end on a super happy note but it would've also a pretty big cop out all things considering so I suppose it's alright.

[cyberghostface]

I expected Snape to use the time-turner to get into Lily's good graces in that cartoon.

[eyz]

That's a pretty cool cover up there :P

[glprime]

Etrigan likes to nibble on his lady love's hair from time to time.

[eyz]

Oh man... can't unseen it now XD
Nom nom nom nom~

[kamino_neko]

Good to know Ystin and Exoristos are actually members of the team, not just random space fillers in this issue.

Speaking of Ystin, though... That cover...my immediate thought was 'Wow, someone's actually drawn her as someone who could pass as a man.' Even in 7 Soldiers, where her sex was a secret for most of the series, she wasn't drawn so masculine.

Oh, good, people are talking about the important thing

[aaron_bourque]

She just looks androgynous, to me.